To protect the world against severe COVID-19 disease, challenge the spread of new variants and enable economies to build back better from this pandemic, the global roll out of COVID-19 vaccines must continue at an accelerated pace. This will require additional, urgent support for the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment to secure additional doses as we pivot together to plan for 2022 and beyond.
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Today, to mark the first year of the creation of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, President Emmanuel Macron announced that France has begun sharing vaccine doses with COVAX, starting with a first batch of 105,600 doses – with 500,…
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COVAX has a critical role to play in ending the acute phase of the pandemic. The initiative could also be a model for how we address some of the most urgent development challenges of our time, from climate change to poverty reduction.